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"Was John gay? A question mark has been set against his sexuality. Pauline Sutcliffe has suggested John had a love affair of sorts with her brother, Stuart; while John's school friend Pete Shotton has affirmed that John told him he'd had sexual contact with Brian Epstein in Spain. [...] This is only relevant in as much as what stock Paul McCartney puts in such stories about his best friend and, on balance, he rejects suggestions John was homosexual, not least because he and John spent countless nights together in hotels on the road, 'and there was never any hint that he was gay'. Certainly the suggestion has never been made about McCartney himself."

Fab : An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney, by Howard Sounes

#mclennon #interesting #what is the author implying?

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Giles Martin on John and Paul:

"Paul and John kind of knew that they were growing apart, and Let It Be was almost like a marriage that’s failing, and they wanna go on their date nights again".

#mclennon #another marriage comparison once again #💔 #giles martin

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Those John and Paul moments ... again … now as a video montage bc I’m obsessed

(Ready, Steady, Go rehearsals, 1963, full video here)

#mclennon #new footage #💕💕

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Q: I always found it interesting that John got married a month after you.

Paul: I think we spurred each other into marriage. They were very strong together which left me out of the picture, so then I got together with Linda and we got our own kind of strength. I think again that they were a little bit peeved that we got married first. (October, 1986)

#mclennon #interesting #hmmmm #lol it was a week after not a month which is even more insane #i wish more interviewers would ask Paul about stuff like this and not the same boring questions over and over #and also about why he married Nancy on Johns birthday

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Love goes both ways

#mclennon #gifs #pictures #compilation

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“I’ve never been the kind to go down to the pub with my buddies. John was really my only male friend, if only because of proximity." -Paul (FAME magazine, 1990)

Your "only male friend?" WTF

#mclennon #interesting #insane #wtf

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Paul on the photos he took of John and George

"My favorite photos are of John and George. There’s a huge sentimental aspect to them. John was a great character. A very different kind of guy to the other boys I knew. We met at the village fete. He was playing with his band. He was a year and a half older than me [and] my first friend who wore glasses. He was always taking them off and polishing them. I found it fascinating." -Paul (2024)

#mclennon #💔 #John John John #he doesnt mention George again for the rest of the interview #oh paul #justice for George #Paul loves John with glasses

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"I just feel blessed to have known him and to have experienced his presence so intimately." -Paul (2009)

#mclennon #💔 #“experience his presence so intimately” #I'm sure you did Paul

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"They were intensely close. And Paul would do almost anything for John".

George Martin, With a little help from my friends : The making of Sgt. Pepper (1994)

#mclennon #“Intensely close” #Tony Barrow also said they had an “intensely close” relationship #💔 #george martin

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from Philip Norman's book, Paul Mccartney: The Life (2016)

It's always funny how authors mention this incident but don't try at all to analyze the implications of it.

#mclennon #totally normal behavior #lol “John wasnt always so considerate” #it's frustrating how authors always avoid to draw any conlusions from this

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"We were a bit tired so we checked into a little hotel for the night. Of course it was too nice a bed after having hitchhiked so we said: “We’ll stay a bit longer”.” -Paul

#mclennon #hmmmm

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"If you go to a party and the husband and wife have been having a row - there's a tension, an atmosphere. And you wonder whether you are making things worse by being there. I think that was kind of the situation we found with Ringo. He was probably feeling a little bit odd because of the mental strangeness with John and Yoko and Paul." -George Martin

(Source: The Beatles, Anthology, 1995)

#mclennon #john/yoko/paul dynamics #george martin

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Q: What’s your favourite part of the ‘Now and Then’ music video? 

Paul: John goofing around!

Source: https://www.paulmccartney.com/news/you-gave-me-the-answer-23-questions-for-2023

#mclennon #💔

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"I can still see John now: checked shirt, slightly curly hair...I remember thinking, ‘He looks good – I wouldn’t mind being in a group with him’." -Paul

#mclennon #gifs #love at first sight

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People are finally noticing things 👀

#mclennon #it was about time #I wonder how Nancy feels about this

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John in Paul's artwork

"Paul mentioned that John was often the subject of his work, commenting: "John is a central figure in my life. I will always be grateful for having so much intimate time with him. The more distant his stuff becomes, the greater he seems. I used to do caricatures of John. He was the only person I knew with an aquiline nose. When I painted him recently, I found myself saying: 'How did his lips go? I can't remember.' Then I would think: 'Of course you know, you wrote all those songs facing each other.'" -Bill Harry

Paul: If I'm going to see a face in a painting, it's highly likely to be his.

“I often think of John when I look at this one,” McCartney says, gazing off dreamily. “John used to always do those funny little men, you know? And I would often sketch John when we worked together, often without him knowing it. It was so easy doing John because he had glasses, those sideboards – what you call sideburns – and that long, aquiline nose.” (2001)

"I would often sketch John when we worked together, often without him knowing it. It was so easy doing John because he had glasses, those sideboards –or sideburns – and that long, aquiline nose.”

#mclennon #my heart 💔 #“glasses” #“sideburns”“ #“that long aquiline nose” #he's so smitten

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'What was your relationship like with John?"

"It was....hmm...interesting"

#mclennon #god I wish I knew what was on his mind at that moment #interesting